<div class="gmail_quote"><div><br></div><div>Jeff -- I deal with many customers with different applications. The survey questions seem very specific to a single application. I may not at all be the target audience you wanted to interview :( Sorry... </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>Django survey questions:</div><div>1. Which of the scenario(s) below apply to your application?</div>
<div> A. On-premise, company-internal users</div><div> B. Hosted, company-external users</div><div>
C. Company-external users, running on their hardware/intranet</div><div> D. Something else?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>B</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>2. How many customers and/or users does your application have?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It depends upon the users. Most of what I do has a pretty small scale -- less than 100 users at a time generally. But, that just seems to be the customers that I attract more than a limitation of any kind.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>3. Are you using Django more as an application framework or as a content management framework?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Application Framework. Definitely.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>4. What industry are you in?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IT/Programming (I also work in a phylogenetic lab, but that's not really relevant here).</div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>5. What does your application do (as much detail as you are willing to share)?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These depend upon the customer we're talking about. Some examples are: A networked kisok for barber shops in Spain for automated metric tracking; A Barbados-based Private Investigator case tracking database (this one I still host for the client); A few governmental agencies websites/applications.</div>
<div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>6. Is this application your company's primary source of revenue?</div></blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I have coded applications for other people and host them. I don't have an "app" of my own. I should. I need the passive income.</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>7. What components other than Django do you use in your production configuration (e.g. database type, web server, cache, etc.)?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had a previous life as an Informix DBA for years. So, I'm very partial to Postgres over MySQL. (Postgres shared some code-base and operates somewhat similarly). I've always used Apache with mod_python (phasing out) to mod_wsgi. I generally pick a single type of app/customer and stick with it. So my stack is:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Django | Pylons (diversifying here - but mostly Django)</div><div>Postgres</div><div>Apache/mod_wsgi</div><div>Linux</div><div><br></div><div>I have needed to use memcached on occasion. </div><div><br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>8. How many servers do you use for your production system?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A few (intentionally vague).</div>
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<div>9. What do you use for deployment?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I still haven't gotten professional enough to really deploy in a scalable way. I still do most deployment manually. I need to learn Simeon's PIP/VirtualEnv tech talk </div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>10. Do you use any cloud or hosting services? If so, which ones?</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
webfaction</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div>11. What are your biggest pain points in terms of deployment, configuration, and management? Would you be willing to pay money to have someone take care of these for you?</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I don't have any pain points. I deal with Sun Grid clusters on a daily basis, configure software regularly, and keep things fairly maintained. I don't have enough work that someone would need to take care of this (and I get a sense of satisfaction from well oiled machines - so I rather like this type of work). And, it's light enough/organized enough not to be a pain point.</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Glen</div></div>-- <br>Whatever you can do or imagine, begin it;<br>boldness has beauty, magic, and power in it.<br><br>-- Goethe <br>